Abraham Lincoln Quotes

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

~ Abraham Lincoln

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

~ Abraham Lincoln

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

~ Abraham Lincoln

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

~ Abraham Lincoln

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

~ Abraham Lincoln

For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

~ Abraham Lincoln

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

~ Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

~ Abraham Lincoln

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

~ Abraham Lincoln

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

~ Abraham Lincoln

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

~ Abraham Lincoln

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

~ Abraham Lincoln

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

~ Abraham Lincoln

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

~ Abraham Lincoln

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

~ Abraham Lincoln

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

~ Abraham Lincoln

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

~ Abraham Lincoln

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.

~ Abraham Lincoln

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.

~ Abraham Lincoln

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

~ Abraham Lincoln